Chapter 20

Felli took Kal high into the air and let him go, allowing Kal to glide along with her most of the way back to the mountain. Then, according to their plan, the harpy hauled him up into the sky and released him again, so he could make the approach to the cave on his own. There was tense moment when he sailed into the turbulence created as air struck the windward side of the peak and pushed its way around. After a couple of seconds of being knocked about, Kal entered the much calmer area directly behind the mountain.

Kal's only mishap was as he pulled up to check his speed, he ended up gaining more altitude than expected and bumped into the rock face just above the cave instead of landing gracefully inside it. Thankfully he was going much slower than the first time and his arms were more than enough to absorb the impact. Pushing himself away from the wall, the feather fall rune let him drift slowly to the ledge below. Ikuno stepped over to him as he landed, looking sparkling clean from her recent bath.

"You seem to be enjoying yourself a little too much doing that," she said, smiling. "Do I need to worry about you running off with one of Felli's relatives?"

Kal had pulled his mask off as he floated down to the stone outcropping. He then got his cloak turned about and situated on his back before replying. "You don't have anything to worry about until I get that flight rune figured out. Until then this will have to be a fun thing to do when I come up here to visit."

"I'm guessing you plan on visiting fairly often on now that you are going to buy the place. What happened to 'I'm not planning on doing it tomorrow or anything'?"

Kal shrugged, "In my defense, I didn't plan on it but the opportunity presented itself. So…"

"Now you are the owner of a roc hatchling's cave. What next?" she asked as they made their way towards Felli's home.

"Next is taking a look at the runes on the cookstove and in the bathroom. I also may make use of the bath myself after I'm done." Kal had dressed warmly for the journey but exploring the heated larger caverns and his trip to the farm had made him overdressed for the higher temperatures. As a result, he was starting to feel a bit ripe from sweating.

The cooktop turned out to be based on a flow control. There appeared to be a rune under the surface that provided the heat with the runes on the side determining how much energy went to it. Kal followed a third line of magic to a spot just behind the stone of the wall a short distance away from the stove but couldn't make out its purpose. Since the cooktop was always active as a heater just touching the runes on the side was enough to switch it from warming the room to hot enough to cook on without introducing extra power like those in the bathroom. He also took note of the conical depression in the ceiling with a hole in it that acted as a vent for whatever was being cooked.

The water controls in the bathroom were a bit more interesting in how they were all set up identical to one another. In each case, the magic that came from below split off to each of the four runes. The "cold" rune sent out a single line of magic that started the water flowing. "Warm" activated "cold" along with another line of magic that Kal assumed turned on some sort of water heater and "hot" activated the other two as well as another heater slightly offset from the first. "Off" cut the flow of magic to any and all of them. Kal made copies of each one as Ikuno looked over his shoulder.

"You know," she said, "I have a waterfall that is just begging for a runesmith and a certain golem to turn it into a proper shower and bath, think you could make this work somewhere else?"

"Absolutely, all we need is a material that we can set into the walls behind the runes and can conduct the magic to where it needs to go. The main difference will be that yours won't be powered by a cave down below, so you'll have to insert a charged crystal somewhere to power the system. It will take a bit of planning but shouldn't be too difficult. If I can modify the spell you use to warm the waterfall now, it should be even easier."

"I'm looking forward to it already," she said with a grin and began undoing the leather straps to her clothes.

"What are you doing?" Kal hissed in a whisper.

"Oh! You're right," holding her clothes in place over her breasts and groin Ikuno snuck around the thin privacy wall and poked her head out the entrance to the bath to find Rone and Felli cuddling together in her nest. Felli had built it in the shape of a large oval with the back partly up on the wall. Rone was taking advantage of that and sitting in it like it was a large deep couch with his legs hanging out the front. The adoring harpy had curled up under his arm to one side. "Kal wants to try out the bath and shower and I'm going to join him. Just ignore any strange sounds you hear." She looked at Felli, "and if he can't then maybe you can try out some of your lessons from this morning. Rone's still young enough he should be ready to go again later too," the oni said with a wink.

As Ikuno disappeared around the corner Rone grumbled, "I was hoping to be the first to do that."

The oni's head appeared as she leaned over behind the doorway, unwittingly showing off one of her large blue breasts with its dark nipple that was noticeably hard already. "Sorry," she said with a smile, scooting back behind the doorway when she noticed neither one was looking at her face. "Call it a service charge for getting it all cleaned up and working for you."

Ikuno stepped back in with her clothes in one hand. As she put them into one of the small cubbies that were carved into the wall, Kal asked her, "Are you so certain that I'm going to fuck you in the shower?"

"Nope," she said with a sultry smile, "but I'm certainly hoping you will." She turned away from him and bent over putting one hand on the side of the tub. She brought her other hand back and ran her fingers through her folds that were already slick with her juices then moved her hand up a bit and dipped those same fingers into her rear. "You haven't taken me back here in a while, I've been missing the feeling of you in my ass."

It took every ounce of Kal's willpower to not jump up and take care of that oversight immediately. However, he saw an opportunity for a little bit of playful payback for this morning. "I still need to figure out exactly how the water is heated in this system as well as how the toilet flushes. I think you should sit on the side of the tub and play with yourself until I'm ready. Legs spread so I can enjoy the view and don't cum."

Kal could see Ikuno's mind working for some way to get out of what he asked. After a few long seconds, she either couldn't come up with anything or decided whatever he planned might be fun. The oni sat down on the back edge of the bath with her back against the wall, quickly casting the spell that dulled her claws.

Kal went back to studying how the bathroom's magic worked but kept having his attention drawn to the large blue woman as her hands first ran over her entire body, avoiding her sex but paying extra attention to her breasts. He heard a small gasp and looked over to see her harshly pinching and pulling at her nipples. Her head was tilted back with her eyes closed and mouth slightly open. Slowly one hand slid down her flat stomach and began lightly teasing the lips of her sex as the other continued to rub her breasts.

Kal realized with a bit of surprise that this was the first time he had ever really watched Ikuno masturbate and was shocked at how turned on he was by it. His prick was already painfully hard and part of him wanted nothing more than to strip and slide his throbbing cock into her dripping pussy or tight ass. Instead, he found himself entranced by the oni's display as she switched from lightly brushing her fingers over her lips to running them along her inner thigh only to come back and touch her sex for a few moments before moving off to another part of her body.

Kal gave up on trying to figure anything out with the runes, he was far too distracted by the beautiful woman in front of him playing with herself. He quickly found himself sitting on the stone floor across from her squeezing his prick through his trousers. He had thought about pulling it out and stroking himself as he watched but didn't trust himself to keep his hands off of, or his dick out of, the oni if he did that, not that she would have minded.

Ikuno began playing with her pussy in earnest, letting out low moans with each breath. With her eyes still closed she started rubbing up and down the entire length of her sex. Every so often she would sneak a finger or two down to tease her back door for a moment, her entire body jerking with pleasure each time.

The privacy wall at the bathroom's entrance did a good job of blocking out noises from inside but Ikuno's low passionate moans seemed to easily sneak past and into the ears of the two sitting in the nest. Rone and Felli had only listened for a couple of minutes before Felli got up and straddled Rone's waist. As their mouths came together Rone brought his hands up to the harpy's breasts and felt them swell under his hands, the hard tips of her nipples pushing into his palms as they quickly grew larger. Rone pulled back in amazement as Felli had gone from nearly flat-chested to only slightly smaller than Marda if he took into account her much smaller frame.

Felli gave him a worried look, "Don't you like them?"

"I think they're amazing," said Rone, his expression matching his words. "How?"

"They go away if I fly, which is good because they make flying harder," she let out a small moan as Rone ran a thumb over her nipple, "but come back when you touch them." They were also very sensitive as Rone could tell from the sharp increase in heat where she was sitting on him. After a short time of playing with her now ample bosom, she mashed her mouth against his again, her tongue dueling with his as she made odd high-pitched noises of pleasure in her throat.

Between making out with the harpy and the passion-filled noises coming from the oni, Rone found himself quickly getting hard. Felli noticed this immediately and began rubbing her sex over the material covering his erection, soon the harpy's juices had covered the front of his trousers.

Rone lifted the harpy up and looked down, it looked like he had wet himself. "Umm… maybe I should take these off?" he asked. Felli nodded eagerly. As he set her back down Felli proved how nimble the small clawed hands on her wings were by quickly undoing his belt for him. Rone lifted up and slid his pants down, Felli's eyes locking on his erect prick as soon as it was revealed. Her eyes never left his groin even as she helped him get his trousers the rest of the way off. Rone had been worried for a moment about sticks or other nesting material poking him in the rear but quickly discovered that was not an issue. Felli spent a couple of hours each day working on her nest and making sure that down and feathers were woven into the cup and everything was nice and comfortable.

Felli climbed back into the nest next to Rone once his pants were out of the way and stared down at his cock. Her sex was screaming at her to climb on top and ride him, even more now that she could take in his scent and see the tiny drop of precum form on the tip. However, she wanted to wait until later tonight when they had all the time they needed to enjoy themselves. Even though she had a feeling that Kal and the blue woman would be in the bath for some time, the harpy still didn't want them to walk out in the middle of her and Rone making love.

She leaned over and licked the clear droplet from the head of his cock, causing a sharp intake of breath from Rone. The big blue lady was right, it did taste better when freely given. Felli was hardly a virgin but what she was doing with Rone was very new to her. Many of her previous lovers had been subjected to a lust crazy harpy their first time with her. Later couplings, if there were any, were filled with either fear or revenge and largely unpleasant until the man fled. Sick of her husbands running off, she had decided to make her home up here to prevent further escapes. Unfortunately, she had been ill prepared for how lonely living at such altitudes would be. Now that she had Rone, she'd never need to worry about either of those things again.

Felli savored the flavor for a moment before slowly taking Rone's prick into her mouth and swirling her tongue around the head. Rone groaned and reached down to run his fingers through her hair. The harpy froze, she didn't think that she had teased him very much but Kal had said to expect a man to start shoving his cock on her mouth after he put his hand on her head. Her husband, however, just smiled down at her and kept playing with her hair. Guessing that she had misread the situation or that Kal was somehow wrong she put her tongue back to work as her lips slid down his shaft.

Felli's small stature meant that her mouth wasn't very deep. Rone was about to say something when the head of his cock bumped the back of her throat, expecting her to gag and pull away in the same manner Marda did. His surprise evaporated into an appreciative groan as his dick slipped into her throat without any sign of discomfort. Soon after he felt her lips press up against the base of his prick as her tongue swiped back and forth across his shaft. Rone might have been less surprised if he had known that harpies as a species didn't have a gag reflex and the very idea was completely foreign to her. As he ran his fingers through her hair he stopped with his hand on the back of her head. Applying a tiny bit of pressure, he soaked in the pleasant feeling of being fully embedded in a woman's mouth for the first time.

Felli, meanwhile, had closed her eyes and was letting Rone's musk fill her senses, sending small shockwaves of pleasure straight to her pussy. She began rolling her hips forward seeking some kind of stimulation. Her wing-hands were good for dexterous tasks like undoing the belt and buttons on her husband's trousers, but the claws made them ill-suited for things like playing with herself. Normally if she needed to get off she would find something to rub her sex against until she came, it occurred to her that this time she had more options. As she began sliding her lips back up Rone's prick she guided his other hand down beneath her and pressed it against her pussy.

The soft feathers that normally hid her sex from view were completely soaked with the harpy's fluids. Rone first dipped one, then a second finger into Felli's sopping pussy as she took a few long deep breaths with just the tip in her mouth. Her tongue danced around the underside of his head as he dragged his wetted fingers forward and brushed them across her clit. Felli let out a small shriek and suddenly took him halfway down his shaft as she jerked away from the intense pleasure. Once the initial surprise was gone she began seeking out his hand, which he had jerked away in fear that he had hurt her. As she once again pressed his hand to her sex she continued taking him all the way to the root and once there began making small bobbing motions. While her throat massaged the head, Felli's lips worked the base and her nimble tongue flicked and darted over everything in between.

Rone found Felli's clit again about the same time he started to feel the familiar tightness in his groin.

"Felli, I'm about to come," he warned her after tapping her lightly to get her attention. He was again surprised at the beaming smile she attempted to give him with her lips still wrapped around his cock. This was the time that Marda usually pulled off and jerked him off onto her tits, she didn't particularly like the taste of cum but loved the feeling of it on her breasts, rubbing it into them like an expensive lotion. Felli pulled up and took a couple of deep breaths before sliding her lips to the base of his shaft again. The knowledge that he was welcome to come in her mouth, and even down her throat, proved to be too much for the man.

He put his free hand on the back of her head and held her in place as he began to shoot down her throat. After the first shot, she pulled back a bit and he yanked his hand away, giving Felli an apologetic look that she never saw. The next couple spurts landed on her tongue and the harpy immediately took him down to the root again, letting him finish in her throat as she savored the treat in her mouth. This was far and away her best experience with a man's cock in her mouth. While not nearly as pleasant, her other experiences had at least given her the knowledge that she very much loved the taste of a man's seed.

As Rone relaxed he realized that his fingers had stopped and began lightly rubbing Felli's pussy again, she immediately began pushing her sex down onto his hand.

"Umm… Felli?" The harpy looked up at him with his softening cock still between her lips. "Would you like me to do the same for you?" he asked. She looked up at him in confusion, no man had ever done such a thing to her, much less offered, leaving her unsure of what exactly he was asking. Seeing the lack of understanding in her eyes he reached over and lifted her body up and over him. The harpy let out an indignant squawk as his dick was pulled from her lips. After giving her a moment to make sure her talons were out of the way, he lowered her sex to his mouth.

Felli saw Rone's soft prick was still below her and gently took it back into her mouth, humming in pleasure and excitement as he took his first tentative licks of her dripping slit. Her scent and taste were light and not very fragrant compared to Marda's. Even so, her juices seemed to have the same effect on him as he felt his cock stir, however, the best he could manage was half-hard so soon after cumming down the harpy's throat.

Rone had wanted to take his time and explore her a bit but Felli was too turned on at that moment for any delays. Placing her clit directly over his lips she pressed down lightly and began moving her hips in small circles over his face, letting out muffled moans as she still held his dick in her mouth. He smiled as he held the needy harpy's hips in place and attacked her clit with his tongue. Her body stiffened at the contact, this was far better than rubbing against something, or even his fingers and she had quite enjoyed those. As Rone switched between making small circles and flicking back and forth her body got tighter and tighter as the pleasure increased until she was suddenly screaming around the cock in her mouth, her talons and wing-hands both digging into the nest below as she came. In a short moment of terror Rone wrapped his arms around Felli and held her tight against his chest to keep her from possibly lifting her feet up, he'd have to be careful of those in the future.

Felli collapsed on top of him, panting as his prick slipped from her mouth. Rone was only partially aware that the sounds coming from the bathroom had stopped for a moment as he picked the harpy up and laid her down sideways in the nest with a questioning chirp. Laying down behind Felli, he laid an arm over her side and cupped one of her breasts as the sounds of lovemaking started up again from the bath. Chuckling he nuzzled and kissed the back of the harpy's head while she made quiet cooing noises of contentment. Minutes later they had both dropped off to sleep.

Ikuno heard voices coming from the room out front and opened her eyes, looking in that direction. She was curious what it was that made it difficult for the harpy to fly but pushed the thought off to the side as something to ask about later.

Looking over at Kal she felt her face heat up as she blushed dark purple. She felt silly even as it happened, they had been intimate so many times it seemed foolish to be embarrassed about something like playing with herself in front of him. This wasn't the first show like this she had done for one of her lovers, but that had been ages ago and, curiously, she had reacted the same way then. However, she was also doing something that was very personal and private, normally only happening when Kal wasn't around. Even so, it was hard not to enjoy the effect she was having on him as she started moving her fingers and watched Kal grip his cock through his trousers. After lifting a leg up onto the side of the bathtub to give herself better access to her bottom she laid her head back once again and closed her eyes.

Kal crawled towards Ikuno when he saw her eyes shut, a smile came to his face as he remembered a similar scene from the day he returned to her cave. When he was next to the foot she'd put up on the side of the tub he sat back on his knees and breathed in the heady scent of her arousal. A moment later he hissed at the sensation of his cock sliding down his pants leg as it grew to fit the oni in front of him when the compatibility spell kicked in.

Ikuno dipped a couple of fingers into her sex to get them wet then reached around to her bottom and began making small circles around her pucker as her other hand began doing the same with her clit. With a long moan, she slowly slid a finger into her ass and began working it in and out, her chest heaving as she began to pant from the pleasure. Soon after she added the second finger, slowly pushing as deep as it would go along with the first. Kal's undivided attention was on the fingers as they disappeared into the tight ring of her anus until her fingers suddenly came off her clit and dove into her pussy, the heel of her hand pressing hard on the swollen purple nub. Kal looked up in confusion and saw Ikuno's head turned to the side, her mouth open as she breathed heavily. A look of strain was clearly etched on her face as her skin started to shimmer from the light sheen of sweat that appeared. After a long, calming lungful of air, she opened her eyes and looked down at him without turning her head.

"You… need to finish up… with those runes," she said between breaths, "I don't know… how much longer… I can keep… from cumming."

Kal realized at that moment he would probably never be as good at teasing as the oni in front of him, he loved seeing his women in the throes of pleasure far too much. Still, he had to poke a little bit of fun at her. "Is that all the longer you can last?" he asked. Seeing her brow furrow Kal laughed, "screw the runes. Do it, I want to watch you cum for me."

The oni just closed her eyes and nodded vigorously as her fingers began slipping in and out of her pussy and ass again. She kept her fingers in her pussy for a bit longer, Kal could tell that she was rubbing the sensitive rough spot just inside, before bringing them back up to her clit. Over just a few seconds she built up speed until was pistoning her fingers in and out of her rear while her other hand rubbed in quick circles over her pearl.

Moments later Ikuno's head tilted back as her face started to flush, which then worked its way down to the tops of her breasts. She gritted her teeth as she attempted not to scream but a high-pitched whine still escaped her lips as she climaxed. Her hand came off her clit and her fingers dipped back into her sex to tease the rough spot once again. This was quickly followed by a small rush of her fluids that drenched her hand as she seemed to climax again while in the midst of her last one.

Kal gripped his prick tightly through his pants as he watched her pussy and ass clench repeatedly around the oni's fingers, wishing once again that he had his cock buried in one of those holes, so he could feel her squeeze down on him.

Ikuno relaxed back against the wall, her eyes fluttering open to take in Kal with a look that was filled with desire. Smiling weakly at him she got up on wobbly legs and fed some power into the "warm" rune next to the bath's upper spout. The water that began spraying out went from icy cold to comfortable in seconds. Ikuno kneeled in the tub so most of the water poured down over her lower back and bottom. Leaning forward against the shower wall she shook her ass as an invitation to the young runesmith.

Kal disrobed as quickly as he could and stepped into the shower behind her. Taking his oni-sized cock in hand he placed it at her rear entrance. As warm water poured down on them he slowly began to press his way into her waiting ass.

"I want to do this with the help of Bea's dust sometime," said Ikuno looking over her shoulder.

Kal thought for a moment about the image of Ikuno with a rounded belly as if she were pregnant. Grabbing her hips, he drove his cock the rest of the way into her, getting a moan of pleasure from the oni as he stretched and filled her backside. "Yes, we are doing that," he said with finality, wanting to make sure she understood that it absolutely was going to happen at some future time.

As Ikuno had said earlier, it had been a while since Kal had fucked her ass and he wanted to enjoy the experience. Unfortunately, as he took her by the hips and started to drive his cock into her bottom he realized that wasn't going to happen. Sooner than he wanted he was holding himself tight against her backside as he pumped the contents of his balls into the oni's rear.

Ikuno looked back and saw the look of slight disappointment on his face. She shared the feeling but could hardly blame Kal considering how excited he had gotten watching her play with herself, then the image of her pregnant she pushed toward him at the mention of Bea's dust; a man can only take so much.

Luckily, she had a solution and reached down between her legs, brushing her fingers across his scrotum as she cast the rejuvenating spell. Feeling him start to swell again she put her hand back up on the wall and ground her bottom side to side against him, smiling as she imagined the seed already inside her being stirred around by his prick.

"You have got to teach me that spell," said Kal.

She grunted in agreement as he took her by the hips again and started pounding her ass just the way she had wanted.

"Whoah… that's a bit more of Rone than I cared to see," said Kal as he and Ikuno finally came out of the bathroom and saw the couple napping in Felli's nest. Rone hadn't bothered to put his pants back on after they had their fun. "Where did those come from?" he said staring at Felli's chest. Rone's hand had slipped down over her stomach and her much-enhanced bust was difficult to not notice, especially with the small pink nipples poking out of the fur-like feathers that covered her chest.

"I think I may know," said Ikuno. "Let's let them sleep. To be honest I could use a nap myself after all that work."

Kal followed her into the tunnel leading out. "Work? What work? I was doing all the work!"

As they stepped out of the tunnel Ikuno reached up and stretched. "Getting off that many times takes it out of a woman. Plus, I want to curl up with my man and enjoy what's left of the afterglow."

Kal felt his eyes drawn to the oni's curves like magnets as she reached up while thrusting her chest out and hips back, the smirk on her face told him the pose was for his benefit. "What do you think?" she asked.

"I think if you keep doing things like that I may try to get another round out of my friend down there," he replied waving at his groin.

She thought seriously about offering him another magically-assisted round, but her bottom had a pleasant soreness right now that she wanted to enjoy, any more and it might actually start getting painful. "Okay, no more teasing. What do you have in mind until supper then?"

Kal sighed, "To be honest I'm feeling pretty worn out myself. Us men really aren't built to go again and again and again like we just did. I still need to figure out the water gets heated, but I can do that later. A nap sounds like a wonderful idea right now. But first I'm curious what you know about Felli's chest, those weren't there when we went into the bath."

"I heard her tell Rone that they make it harder to fly. Scholars studying harpies are few and far between, I have a feeling that in the process of 'studying' they end up becoming husbands to their research, so I haven't read up a lot on them. Also, I don't have any books on harpies in my current library.

"What I can recall is varied, researchers would see a harpy take a new husband and then have breasts the next day, some wouldn't. Some thought that it was tied to their arousal, but others dismissed that based on their own observations." Kal had to agree, she had certainly been in a lusty mood after their game of chase earlier and there'd been no sign of larger breasts when they landed. "All I can tell you for sure is that they don't like flying with them, being described as awkward or ungainly in the air. Your best bet is going to be asking Felli when we come back."

Kal nodded, "I may do that. Now, how about that nap?" he said smiling up at Ikuno.

A few hours later found Rone working on supper over the cooktop as Kal practiced his geomancy by making the attendant's quarters a bit homier and more useful for human living. After removing the broken-down shelving next to the magic range, Kal pulled some new shelves out of the stone wall to replace them. Rone quickly went about loading them up with the various foods and eating utensils that Marda, Nina, and Perra had sent back earlier. He then asked Kal if he could make some more like that along the back wall since he had some bedclothes to put up and planned on bringing up some extra clothes and such for his future stays. Instead, Kal traced out a large rectangle and pushed it back into the stone then pulled out three evenly spaced shelves inside it using the same technique as before. Another similar set of shelves ended up on the wall opposite the sink and toilet in the bathroom replacing the cubbies that were already there.

Felli mostly just sat on her perch at the table and stared at the things Kal was doing with wonder. Earlier she had been annoyed at all of the changes to her living area until Ikuno took her off to the side and explained that they were to make Rone more comfortable on the days when he was staying up here with her, as well as Marda if she ever decided to visit. The harpy immediately brightened at the idea of having Rone stay for days at a time, Ikuno couldn't tell if this was the first time she had considered the idea or if she had just forgotten the conversations from earlier.

Kal also raised up the floor beneath Felli's nest to something a bit more comfortable for a human to sleep in. Felli immediately complained that she couldn't just step into it anymore. He then made another stone perch like the one next to the table for her to step on before entering the nest. Rone had walked up to see what was going on and happened to be standing right behind Felli as she tried out the new perch. A look passed between Rone and Kal with Rone making a motion indicating that he should raise it up a tiny bit more. With the adjustment made, Rone asked Felli to try it again and had her stop on the perch. Looking down at the harpy's backside, the farmer smirked at the young wizard and nodded his approval before returning to preparing their food.

Ikuno manned the 'kitchen' for a little bit as Rone asked Kal about making a more standard bed frame out of stone, something that he could weave ropes across and put a wool mattress over, he just couldn't see Marda being happy sleeping in the nest if she came up to visit. Working stone into something as seemingly simple as a bed turned out to be more of a challenge than expected for Kal. He had gotten used to having plenty of material to work with, just pulling things out of the floor or wall. When he made a post then tried drawing one of the side rails out of it he was surprised to see the post get smaller and smaller until it nearly snapped. He ended up redoing the side rail twice before he finished with a thick enough bedpost for him to be comfortable with. As Kal finished putting in the last of the holes in the rails for the ropes to eventually pass through, Rone announced that supper was ready.

"This is very strange," said Felli thoughtfully as the other three tucked into their meal of pork steaks and cooked veggies.

"What's that?" asked Rone.

"I've never had someone make me food before. This is the first time in as long as I can remember that I didn't have to go hunting to eat," she said picking up a strip of cooked pork with her claws and biting off a small piece. Rone had sliced up her portion since she was still getting used to the idea of eating with utensils and needed more practice.

"I think that this is more of a celebratory meal for you joining Rone's family," said Kal, "I'm certain your hunting skills will prove to be very useful in the future."

"Speaking of futures, you mentioned something about hiring Felli as a caretaker for all of this. What exactly did you mean by that?" Rone asked.

"Mostly what I said down at your place, clean up a bit and keep things maintained until I can put together the resources to start turning this into a village."

"What kind of a timetable are you thinking? And what will happen to Telsin? There's a good chance that being so close might put your village at odds with them."

Kal sat back, "I hadn't really thought of that. Personally, I'd like to see Telsin become as welcoming to monster girls as what I have planned here. Sadly, I know already that will never happen, too many in the town council will never accept non-humans." He looked down at his plate, deep in thought for a few seconds before answering, "As of right now I don't have an answer for what may happen with Telsin. However, I still have a few years to worry about it, which I think answers your first question. Chances are good that it is going to take time to build up the money for what I have planned."

"You could do the same as how you got the amethyst," suggested Ikuno.

"I thought of that, but then it wouldn't feel like I worked for it. Besides, I don't think she would let me."

Something clicked with Rone, "You're talking about your friend that can move through stone and was going to rescue me, aren't you?"

Kal suddenly realized something and cursed under his breath, Ikuno picked up his thought through the bond and looked like she had bitten into something sour. "I should have never mentioned her yesterday. I apologize Rone but you and Felli are going to have to keep Gerda a secret as well," said Kal. "Keeping quiet about Ikuno is a very personal thing for her. Speaking to anyone about Gerda is a very different situation. If the wrong people found out about her it could put you and your family in serious danger, if not from the people who would hunt her then from me if I found out she came to harm from your actions."

A flicker of concern flashed across Rone's face as he took in the implications of Kal's last statement. Glancing at Felli he realized he would act exactly the same way if his and Kal's positions were reversed. "You've brought Felli into my family and are going to make me a very rich man. My lips are sealed," he said with a smile.

"While we are talking about Felli," Kal blushed a little bit, "Umm… Felli? Where did those come from?" asked Kal while cupping his hands and making a motion as over his own chest as if he had breasts.

"Oh those?" she said looking down, "Rone gave them to me," she said as if that explained everything.

"That… makes sense, in a weird way, but I'm curious how."

"He touched them," said the harpy and went into an unabashed explanation of the events leading up to her breasts growing. By the time she was done Rone was staring intently at his plate and steadfastly refusing to meet anyone else's eyes.

Kal nodded when she was done, "You said that they make it harder for you to fly, is there a way to make them shrink again?"

She looked down again then at Kal, "Don't you like them?"

Kal tried not to laugh at the look of disappointment on her face, "They are very nice Felli and I'm sure that Rone is enjoying them very much. However, since I won't be touching them I'm more interested in how they work."

"Oh," she didn't seem terribly convinced by his explanation. "They grow when a man touches them, but not all the time. All the other men it took a while for them to appear. Rone is the first person they've done this so soon. Since I didn't have to go hunting tonight and Rone seems to like looking at them, I let them stay." She hefted her breasts with her hands and both sets of male eyes were immediately drawn to her chest, though she only noticed Rone's gaze which put a smile on her face. After a moment of enjoying her husband's stare, she continued, "They go away after I've been flying for a few minutes or I can just flap my wings in place to do the same thing. Air doesn't flow right over them, and they throw my balance off, so I'll usually make them go away beforehand."

"That must be useful," said Ikuno, "I couldn't tell you how many times I wished I didn't have mine when I was learning martial arts. Being thrown off balance because of all this extra weight attached to your chest is a pain, especially when your instructor doesn't pull punches."

Thinking back on his and Ikuno's sparring matches, it certainly didn't sound like fun to Kal. A couple of seconds later he snorted at the thought of Ikuno staring down the gargoyles from before, flapping her arms wildly as she tried to make her breasts shrink. Kal pushed the image at Ikuno who glared at him with annoyance then sent back an image of herself with the flat chest of a man. It was Kal's turn to look like he had just eaten something he didn't like.

Ikuno seemed taken aback, "What was that for? You don't seem to mind Aradelle's chest, and she hardly has any tits at all!"

"That wasn't the problem," he snapped back though he couldn't stop one side of his mouth from curling up into a smile. "The issue was that you gave yourself a man's chest, not your chest with tiny breasts." Kal paused for a moment tried to put together a reasonable mental picture to send back at her but the best he could manage was a bit smaller than her current bust. He leaned over and reached under the leather flap covering her chest, running his fingers along the bottom of one of her breasts. "I can't seem to bring myself to imagine you being endowed like 'Dell. I guess I like what you have too much for that."

"Not that I don't enjoy what you are doing," said the oni as she gently pushed his hand away, "but we have an audience."

"Oops… sorry," Kal said as he looked over at Felli and Rone. His grin didn't come across as very apologetic.

The harpy and her husband gave Kal and Ikuno looks of utter confusion until Rone spoke up, "Is that the 'bond' you were talking about earlier?" Oni and wizard both nodded. Rone looked over at Felli, "Is there a chance that will happen to us?"

"Unlikely, but not impossible," answered Ikuno. "I believe that Kal's natural magical abilities are what makes it so easy for him to accept a bond with a monster girl. Keep in mind, Kal is very unique in that it usually takes decades to develop the kinds of abilities he has. If you were to start now and train your own magical skills, then you might be able to form a similar bond with Felli in twenty to thirty years."

Rone's eyes went wide at how long it would take "What about her?" he asked still looking at the harpy.

"Like all monster girls, harpies were born of magic. From her ability to fly, to making other things lighter at a touch, to her enhanced chest, she has more than enough magic within her to initiate a bond. Sorry, Rone, your human nature is the hold-up."

"I have no plans on dropping everything I've ever known to go learn magic, so I suppose we we'll never have to worry about it," he said with a mix of both sadness and relief.

"That may be for the best," said Kal. "There is very little jealousy among my women and even that isn't really jealousy, more like disappointment that I can't get over to see some of them more often. I mean no offense when I say this, I don't think Marda is the type who would tolerate you being bonded to Felli and not her."

Rone cringed, "I think you are right on that." The conversation petered out after his statement and there was an uncomfortable silence as everyone finished up their meals.

For as overbearing as Ikuno's personality could be at times there was little doubt that, in the end, she deferred to him, much like in the bathroom earlier. She might try to squirm out of a particular situation, so she could meet his demands on her own terms, but eventually, she would give him what he wanted, even if it was in a slightly different manner than what he had planned. It was a game to the oni, but one that Kal was always the winner at and Ikuno made sure of it.

Looking at Rone, Kal couldn't say that he felt pity for the man, he was obviously very happy with his wife. Kal just didn't think that he could find the same kind of happiness constantly playing the subservient role in the relationship. As Felli hopped off her perch and went over to lean up against the other man a flicker of concern ran across Kal's face. The doting look Rone was giving the harpy told a lot about how the man felt about her. Caring, passionate, protective, the only one of those that worried Kal was the last. He was glad he wouldn't be in Rone's shoes the first time Marda snapped at Felli and put his submissive nature at war with his protective side.

After supper they made good use of the working faucets in the bathroom to clean everything up, then Rone had a request for Kal.

"Could you perhaps move the table? I really like having one, but it is a bit in the way right here in the middle of the room. I thought I should ask now instead of tomorrow morning just as you are about to leave."

After the intricacies of the bed frame earlier it took only a couple of minutes to return the table and seats to the floor and pull out a large slab from the wall along with a diagonal support that ran nearly to the floor. At Rone's request, he only made a perch for Felli at the end of the new table saying that he would bring up materials for some wooden chairs next time Felli took him home. Kal had to admit the room felt a lot more open with the change.

It was getting late and Kal and Ikuno were preparing to head back to the storeroom for bed when Rone stopped them. "One last thing Kal," he pointed up at the large crystal in the ceiling that was lighting the room. "Do you have any idea how to turn that off? I haven't slept in the dark in days."

Kal followed the magic lines just beneath the surface of the stone over to the wall next to the exit where they spread out and became so faint he couldn't see them anymore, though he could sense the magic running through almost the entire wall once he made his eyes glow. Even then he couldn't figure out the mechanism to turn them off, though he did see that there was a detector rune much like over in the storeroom to turn them on when someone walked in. Thankfully Ikuno was able to help out once he described what he was seeing.

"Think of how much light you want and direct it at that wall," she suggested. Kal tried this and the lights immediately dimmed. Behind him, Rone let out a whoop of joy as Felli chirped with curiosity from her perch next to the nest. Kal turned and looked at the oni, his eyes alight with curiosity and a little bit of wonder.

"Oh, hells no," said Ikuno taking his hand and pulling him towards the exit. "I've seen this before in palaces and wizard towers, so you can pick my brain later about how it works. It's time for bed." She threw a meaningful glance in Felli's direction.

Kal saw her look and put up a token resistance to her pulling, "But… but… It's new, and interesting, and it works with just thoughts!" He gave an exaggerated sigh and glanced backward, barely managing to get out, "Bye Rone. Bye Felli," before Ikuno pulled him into the tunnel.

Once they got out into the crisp mountain air Ikuno took a couple of deep breaths as Kal summoned a small light for them only to dismiss it a moment later as the moon and stars were more than bright enough to see by. "You humans and your weak noses are lucky sometimes."

"That's a strange compliment," said Kal looking up at her.

The oni pushed the piece of leather hiding her sex off to the side and ran her fingers over her lips, Kal could see her hand glisten in the moonlight as she pulled it away. "I hadn't planned on doing anything tonight, but the scent of horny harpy seems to have gotten me all warmed up again," she said in what seemed like genuine annoyance.

Kal pulled her hand close and ran his tongue up one of her fingers, enjoying the familiar taste. "I'm with you on not having anything planned but I won't turn down a quickie before bed," he said with a smile.

"Thank goodness," she said and with a sly grin walked out the mouth of the cave while undoing the buckles on her leathers.

"What are you…?"

She laid the strips of leather out on the ledge a small distance apart before kneeling on them. Ikuno looked back over her shoulder, "once you have turned this into a village we won't have much opportunity to do this," she said before leaning over and swaying her ass back and forth in invitation.

Kal took a moment to appreciate her undulating body in the moonlight before removing his cloak and moving towards her.

Rone took a minute to marvel at the ability to change the lights with little more than a thought before he heard a voice off to his side.

"Rone, come join me," came Felli's voice in a tone he hadn't heard before. Looking over he saw that she was lying on her side in the nest giving him a look that would do a seasoned seductress proud. Where yesterday Kal had been amazed at how bird-like she seemed, Rone was thinking the exact opposite at the moment. The way she stretched out accentuated the feminine curves of her hips and waist, along with her enhanced bust she looked more human than she had since they met. His body's reaction was immediate. Dimming the lights, Rone started shedding clothes as he moved towards the nest, only stopping for a moment at one of the sunken shelves Kal had made to grab a blanket.

Rone felt a little bit self-conscious under Felli's appreciative gaze, this would actually be the first time for him to be completely naked in front of her. Had she known his thoughts, Felli could have told him he had nothing to worry about, his life working the fields of his home had kept the man in good shape. As he dropped his trousers the harpy smiled and unconsciously licked her lips when his prick was revealed.

Felli scooted forward and hung her head over the side of the nest. Giving Rone a knowing smile she rolled onto her back and opened her mouth for him. Rone said a quiet thanks to Kal for raising her nest as he stepped up to the harpy, sighing when her lips wrapped around the head of his cock. She flicked her tongue across the tip for a moment before sucking powerfully and drawing him the rest of the way in, when he reached her throat Rone continued pushing until he was fully seated inside her mouth. He looked down as he began to slowly stroke in and out, thankful that he had left the lights on high enough to watch as his cock make her throat bulge every time he pressed into her. The sight combined with the feel of slowly fucking her throat and Felli's obvious enjoyment of the act brought him quickly to the brink of release. With a groan of disappointment, he grasped the base of his dick to keep from cumming and withdrew from her mouth.

Rone leaned over and gently sucked on each of her small pink nipples to the appreciative coos of the harpy before instructing her to turn around. As she presented her glistening sex to him Rone threw the blanket on the hard stone in front of her and knelt down on it. He gently brushed away all of the damp feathers around her pussy before running his fingers over her lips. He brought his other hand up and gently spread her open before leaning forward and slipping his tongue inside her. Felli had been watching Rone intently up until now, as his tongue slid in and out she turned her head to the side and moaned at the sensation, her wing hands coming up to rub across her breasts.

Rone settled into the pleasant task of slowly bringing Felli to her first orgasm, switching back and forth from teasing the lips around her entrance to taking a couple of light swipes at her clit. He was trying to stall for time and allow his prick to calm down a bit but even as Felli got closer and closer he still felt like he was on the verge of cumming and that his cock had hardly flagged at all. That changed when he sucked her pearl into his mouth and swirled his tongue around it. Felli had been careful to keep her talons tucked in but as she was overwhelmed with the sensations from her sex she started to stretch and curl her toes reflexively. Rone quit spreading her open with his fingers and quickly took hold of her ankles, holding her legs away from him as he attacked her button. A strange ripple went up Felli's body as she came that seemed to make every one of her feathers stand up on end before she let out an ear-piercing shriek and reached down, holding his head tight against her pussy. As her body relaxed and she let his head go Rone moved back down to gently lick and nibble her around her entrance. He was especially enjoying looking up her body and seeing her stomach tighten and relax with the aftershocks of her climax and watching her ample chest rise and fall as she got her breath back.

Felli slowly opened her eyes and looked at Rone giving him a lusty smile that let him know she wasn't done yet. A second later a frown crossed her face as he saw what his hands were doing. "Sorry," she said, feeling honestly ashamed that Rone had to defend himself from her even as they were making love.

"Don't be Felli, we just need to do things a bit differently than I do with Marda. However, I'd rather not have to worry about these," he gave her legs a light squeeze, "would you rather be on top or in front?"

"In front?" she asked but Rone didn't hear it that way.

"In front it is," he said picking her up and holding her tight to his chest, for a moment he was tempted to just lower her down onto his prick and take her that way. While he still hadn't gotten any softer he at least wasn't seconds away from cumming anymore. Instead, he moved over to her new perch and set her down on it. She was still puzzled until he told her to turn around, his hands coming up to her hips once she was facing away from him.

It took a supreme effort on Felli's part to not press backwards when she felt his cock nudge her entrance. "No," she said as she pulled away from his grip and stepped up into the nest. She turned and saw the confused and slightly hurt look on Rone's face. "I want our first time to be face to face."

The hurt and confused expression was quickly replaced by a smile and nod of understanding as he climbed into the nest and laid on his back, beckoning her down. Felli stepped over him and sunk her talons into the material of the nest so Rone would no longer have to worry about them, then lowered herself down to his chest and scooted back until she felt his prick against her sex.

Rone chuckled, "This is something I never thought I'd do."

She gave him a confused look, "What's that?"

"Consummating a marriage, a second time."

"Marriage?"

"You don't really get human customs, do you," he said lining his cock up at her entrance, "Jurien and Kal recognized our union earlier but it's not until now," Rone slowly sank into Felli waiting pussy, "that you are officially my wife."

Felli's eyes had rolled back in pleasure as he slid between her lips, stretching and filling her up deliciously. They snapped back to his face as his words finally registered with the harpy. "Wife?! I thought I was just a member of your family now."

Rone chuckled again, the slight movement making Felli grab his arms from the pleasure it caused. She was trying to figure out why this was so much better than any other time she'd had a man inside her. "You've been calling me your husband this entire time," he said, "well now it's official, I'm your husband which makes you my wife."

A shudder like a mini-orgasm ran through Felli's body at the words, momentarily ruffling all of her feathers. "Your wife needs you to fuck her," she said with an almost feral look in her eyes, "Make love to me later. Right now, I need your seed inside me," she said as she raised up and impaled her sex on his cock again.

Rone had questions about her sudden change in attitude but decided they could wait. Taking her hips in his hands he raised and lowered the light harpy on his prick. It only took a few strokes before the harpy was insensate, her head thrown back and moaning each time he sheathed himself inside her. As Felli became used to the intense, new sensations she started moving her hips back and forth, adding a new sensation for Rone at the same time.

Each time she shifted her hips forward it felt like a strong tongue was pressing hard against the underside of his dick, milking it. A few strokes later whatever was causing the sensation passed across the tip of his cock just before he pressed back into the harpy. He was buried about halfway inside her and getting curious about the sudden change in how she felt when she called out.

"Stop!" she said in a loud whisper, her body locking up as her wing-hands went to his arms to keep him from moving. A mixture of fear and confusion was etched on her face as her mind raced to deal with the sudden change in the situation. Concerned, Rone started to pull out. "Don't move," she said gripping him again.

Rone was puzzled, he knew that he hadn't accidentally slipped into her bottom, and unfortunately knew from experience that this reaction was far too tame. The fear and confusion in Felli's eyes gave way to her trying to make a decision. "What happened?" he finally asked her.

She smiled down at him, "The way seed goes in is not the same way the eggs come out. I was trying to make you feel even better and you slipped into the wrong one."

"Well let me go back into the right one then," Rone was having a hard time wrapping his head around the idea of Felli effectively having dual vaginas but his cock was pointed more towards her back now and it did feel very different, and somehow familiar, than it had a moment ago.

"No, wait," she said, "don't pull out, there's something about this that feels very… right." She lowered herself down a bit further and Rone felt something hard against the tip of his prick that reminded him of bumping Marda's cervix. As Felli lifted up he also felt the familiar rough spot on the front wall, the harpy gasped as the base of his head rubbed across it. She slid up and down on his shaft a few more times before lifting completely off and sinking back down onto him. Gone was the cervix and rough spot replaced by the muscular walls that drew him in and proceeded to milk his cock.

"Sometime tomorrow after Kal and his friend leave I want you to take me that way," she said, "I want there to be enough room for you to get all the way inside. Right now, though…" she began squeezing his shaft as she started to slide up and down on him.

Rone leaned back and moaned as she bounced up and down on his prick. The pleasure soon became too much for the harpy and she leaned over him, the added stimulation of her nipples dragging across his chest only speeding her toward climax. After a few minutes of passionate lovemaking Felli's pussy clamped down on Rone's cock and she let out another piercing scream as her orgasm washed over her. Rone was too close to stop and grabbed her hips thrusting up into her until he buried himself deep inside the harpy and did his best to try to fill her up.

Felli laid down on Rone's chest making small noises of contentment as they both recovered. Rone was somewhat surprised that he hadn't gone soft yet but didn't think much of it. Still buried inside the harpy he reached over the side of the nest and felt around for the blanket. After throwing it over the both of them, Rone dimmed the lights to nearly complete darkness and the couple quickly fell asleep.

Three more times during the night Rone woke up and discovered he was still hard, twice he was still seated within Felli's sex when that happened. They had a soft and slow lovemaking session the first time and on the second Felli lay on her side and pulled her tailfeathers out of the way offering him her bottom as the only place of hers he hadn't been yet. He had wanted to try this with Marda for quite some time but after an unfortunate slipping incident, she hadn't let him near her backdoor. The intense tightness along with the pleasure Felli was plainly getting from it sent him over the edge far too quickly for his liking. Rone took solace in her insistence that he would have many more opportunities to take her that way in the future.

The third time he woke up to use the restroom. Finding that he was still hard Rone was beginning to get concerned, and uncomfortable. As he walked out of the bathroom Felli asked what was wrong.

"It won't seem to go away," he said gesturing at his erection.

"Kiss me."

"Umm.. okay," Rone leaned down and gave her a peck on the lips.

Felli scowled, "No, I mean really kiss me."

"What…"

"Just do it," she said with a devious smile.

Rone leaned down and as their lips came together, their tongues immediately started dancing in each other's mouths. "Not that I mind kissing you," said Rone after they separated, "but how was that supposed to help."

"I make a scent just for you that will keep you hard as long as I want," even as she spoke his cock started to droop, "all you have to do is kiss me to make it stop."

"You never used this on me before."

"I didn't want to at all, but I was getting pretty desperate when Kal and his blue friend showed up."

Rone smiled, "Suddenly taking care of two women at once doesn't seem like nearly as much of a challenge."

"You may want to get used to it while you are here, she said beckoning him over to stand in front of her. "I liked waking up with you inside me." She leaned forward and took his now flaccid prick in her mouth and just held it there sighing contentedly. Rone thought that even if he was wrong and it turned out to be a huge challenge for him in the future, Felli was definitely worth it.

The next morning Kal and Ikuno stood in Felli and Rone's home as Felli sat hunkered down in her nest waiting to lay her egg.

"Umm… Rone I know we said we needed to leave as soon as possible after she laid the egg but it's not really necessary for us to be right here, in the room as she does it," whispered Kal to the man at his side.

Rone shrugged, "She asked me to get you, besides it's not like she's bashful or anything. If this was our baby it would be a different story."

Kal conceded that he had a point. Also, it wasn't like she was actually showing them anything since she was facing toward her audience. A few minutes later Rone nudged Kal, Felli's eyes were half-lidded and they could see her lower torso ripple. A moment later her eyes widened again as she stood up, revealing a light tan colored egg with brown speckles.

Kal looked at Rone, "May we?" he asked. Rone nodded as did Felli when he looked in her direction. He and Ikuno approached the nest as Felli stepped away from the egg. Ikuno dried it off with a cloth then wrapped it in a towel before placing it in a wooden box she produced from Kal's pack, then stored the box away again with its new contents.

"I must admit I thought it was going to be bigger," said Kal figuring the egg was just a bit larger than his hand, there was a lot of extra room in the box they had brought.

"Wait till Rone gives me a chick," she said and pantomimed having a round belly then held up her hands about the size of a small newborn.

Kal and Ikuno looked at each other. "That explains how they know the difference," said Ikuno.

"Couldn't they have mentioned it in the book?" said Kal rolling his eyes.

"What are you talking about?" asked Rone.

Kal shook his head, "Nothing important, I'll tell you on my next visit. We need to be going."

A few minutes later they were all standing on the ledge as Kal finished getting his cloak situated. Once done, goodbyes were said all around and Rone and Felli watched as Kal and Ikuno prepared to jump off the ledge with Ikuno only being slightly annoyed at Felli saying, "Goodbye blue lady!"

"Race you," said Kal.

Ikuno glared at him for a moment then looked down the sheer drop off to the slope that ran back towards the section of the forest they had come from. She had been holding the feather fall spell but hadn't activated it yet. She let the spell fade then summoned her iron club, turning around she waved to Rone and Felli then without any fanfare hopped backwards off the ledge.

"Ikuno!" yelled Kal as Rone joined him in peering over the edge and Felli flitted out into the mountain air quickly diving towards the falling oni. With her breasts, she wasn't nearly the graceful creature he had seen yesterday.

Ikuno impacted the mountain slope in a huge cloud of dust as the other three looked on in shock. A second later Kal saw a red magic circle in the middle of the cloud quickly followed by an aqua colored one, shortly after a blue-skinned form came streaking out of the dust running breakneck down the mountain slope, vaulting or jumping over any obstacles that got in her way.

Rone looked over at Kal, "I think you're going to lose this race."

Kal smiled, "I think you're right," he said and dove off the ledge after the sprinting blue woman.

Rone watched until they were both out of sight on the lower slopes then turned around to go back inside just as Felli landed in front of him.

She started walking towards the tunnel to their home with an exaggerated swing of her hips. "I know I have to take you back to the farm later, but I have plans for you now that those two are gone. If you want, you can have another go at my bottom again as well."

Rone smiled, "Felli, dear. For right now, I'm all yours."